[sweetjazz]

I think the preflop call is a losing play, but only by a little. Part of the reason is that your position relative to the preflop aggressor is poor for a drawing hand and you do not have much high card strength to win very many one pair hands.

On the flop, you are in a tough spot. With your five outer plus backdoor draws, you need to at least call and raising may be better.

On the turn, you must seriously consider taking a free card. I doubt villain will fold 99 here, so you have to hope that you either improve on the river or that he has a hand like KQ or KJ. The fact that he raises so much preflop means that you will sometimes have the best hand here, so betting the turn (probably with the intention of checking behind UI on the river) may be best.

Once you are check-raised, you must call and try to hit one of your outs. As you say, river is easy. Too bad he didn't bet the river, as it is hard to put you on a 7 there. Maybe he just had a lousy hand and his turn CR didn't make sense. Or he's just weak on the river.

If you cold-call a raise PF with 87s, be prepared for some tough postflop decisions. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Your line isn't that bad, and the possibility of setting your opponent on tilt might "tilt" the correct decisions to the aggressive plays that you used in the hand.

Yours truly,
Decapitated